Word: hillgarth
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...proposed plan--the details of which will be worked out at a meeting in New Haven on September 29--may be impemented for this year's applicants, and should include several other prestigious Eastern graduate schools, Nina P. Hillgarth, director of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) admissions, said yesterday. Hillgarth said the hopes the program will eventually be nationwide...
...said the GSAS "will not have a minority recruiter as such" next year because "recruiting for the whole graduate school does not seem to work very well," though, he added. Nina P. Hillgarth, head of the GSAS admissions office, will work with the six other universities to interest minority students in Harvard...
...course, Harvard officialdom has a different explanation. In 1973, Harvard admitted 8 per cent of its black applicants and 18 per cent of its white applicants. According to Nina P. Hillgarth of the graduate admissions office, the applications from black students were "absolutely rotten" (telephone conversation, February 27, 1974). In 1972, Harvard had a minority recruiter, Joseph Strickland, who while touring black campuses recruited over 200 black applicants. Harvard eventually enrolled 13. Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, said that most of Strickland's recruits were "unqualified" (interview, February...
Peter McKinney, administrative dean of GSAS, explained on Feb. 15 that, in 1972, the late Joseph Strickland recruited over 200 black applicants, but that most of them were "unqualified." Nina Hillgarth, an admissions officer for GSAS, was more straight-forward about the class admitted in 1973. She told us on Feb. 27 that the applications from black students were "absolutely rotten...
Corporation appointees, such as professors and administrators, have always had the privilege of taking courses during working hours, Hillgarth added, and the new program will "hopefully" be expanded to give all employees similar privileges...